Following recent interactions with London South East Colleges (LSEC) Bromley Campus on our Orange Street site, our Social Value Manager Jenny Bignell was invited to attend an Employers Skills and Curriculum event with College Lecturers and Heads of Department for STEM courses, including Carpentry, Bricklaying and Built Environment. We discussed the adequacy of existing curriculum and units offered within the Construction and Built Environment, suggesting proposals to further enhance the learning provision and ready students for the workplace, such as covering different contract forms and design criteria for developments as part of the T-Level Qualification in Design, Surveying and Planning.
Sustainability was also a key focus, discussing the new ‘Sustainability Hub’ at the Bromley Campus which will provide a practical learning space for students in the installation of sustainable technologies and materials, including Solar PV, Electric Vehicle Chargers and Air Source Heat Pumps. We agreed visibility of such technologies and sustainable strategies in a live environment is critical to student learning and understanding of the ever-growing importance of sustainable construction, as such we confirmed our willingness to offer site tours to LSEC students on our live sites to showcase varying sustainable measures in operation.
As a committed contractor to the learning and development of the future generation, we are keen to grow our relationship with LSEC and will continue to offer LSEC students work experience opportunities, tours of live construction sites and factory manufacturing workshops to support the curriculum, providing a real insight into the world of construction and enabling students to put their theory into practice.
A big part of what we do is taking part in community engagement and upskilling a new generation of construction workers. We love supporting work experience opportunities and giving young people a chance to see why we love what we do. We recently enjoyed showing around the brilliant electrical, mechanical and plumbing students from London South East Colleges for them to gain a closer insight.